A Proposal for Transaction-Level Verification with Component Wrapper Language

  • Authors:
  • Koji Ara;Kei Suzuki

  • Affiliations:
  • Hitachi, Ltd.;Hitachi, Ltd.

  • Venue:
  • DATE '03 Proceedings of the conference on Design, Automation and Test in Europe: Designers' Forum - Volume 2
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

We propose a new approach to accelerate transaction level verification by raising the productivity of the verification suites including test patterns, protocol checker, andsimulation-coverage analyzer. This approach combines the conventional transaction level language such as C and the signal level language based on our previously developed Component Wrapper Language (CWL). This approach is based on two concepts. The first one is a complete separation between transaction-level verification and signal-level verification for generating suitable verification suites in each design phase. The second one is the quick generation of signal-level verification suites from the original specification written in CWL. Experimental results show that our approach should yield much shorter verification periods versus conventional methods.